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JAMB Releases 15,000 UTME Results Initially Withheld, Cancels Some

The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 15,490 results of candidates who were
suspected of being involved in one examination infraction or another.

The disclosure was made in a
statement by the spokesperson for the board, Fabian Benjamin, the statement
read: "The board probed the identity and involvement of some candidates
who were suspected of being involved in one examination infraction or another,
the Board has further cleared and released the results of 15,490 candidates in
this category."

The board classified candidates with
suspected infractions into five groups at the conclusion of the review exercise
it carried out.

The first category includes
candidates who have sufficiently proved their innocence, the second category
are those with inconclusive evidence of culpability, the third category
includes The statement further read: "Consequently, the results of categories
(i)and (ii) were part of the 15,490 released on Saturday, 8th June, 2019. They
are to send RESULT to 55019 for their result."

According to Benjamin, category
three includes those whose upload of evidence necessitated further
interrogation.

The statement continued: "The
third categories have been notified and invited (through phone call, their
profile, text message and email) to designated centres across the country for
further clarification of the evidence against them.

It is in their interest to attend
otherwise the evidence will be taken as conclusive." ”For category four,
those whose culpability have been firmly established thus necessitating the
cancellation of their results.

A total of additional 321 results were therefore
conclusively cancelled and the candidates are being notified." The
spokesperson said the fifth category are those who did not heed the advice to
upload evidence of their identity.

According to Benjamin, there is
incontrovertible evidence of their culpability. The statement added: "They
also have their results cancelled along with category (iv) above.

Further more,
four additional CBT centres were found culpable and were also delisted,” he
said. "The Board will continue to deploy cutting-edge technology and also
engage the services of globally-acclaimed experts to ensure that the sanctity
of its examination is protected."

It was previously
reported that the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced the
release of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The
registrar of the board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the results of the
examination were released on Saturday, May 11.